MORPHIA

 

director

Alexey Balabanov

cast

 Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Andrey Panin, Sergei Garmash 

producer

Sergey Selyanov

production

Drama, 112 min, CTB Film Company, Russia, 2008

оriginal title MORFIY language Russian

 

synopsis

 

Late in the fall of 1917, twenty-three year old Dr. Polyakov arrives at the hospital in the provincial town of N. One day, while fighting for the life of a patient, Dr. Polyakov's own life is put in danger. He is saved with an injection of the powerful narcotic morphia. But Polyakov doesn't believe that a sensible man, especially a doctor like himself, can fall victim to a crippling addiction.

          

festivals & awards

40 festivals, including Rotterdam, Haifa, London, Sitges, Thessaloniki. Montreal, Gijon, Vancouver, Melbourne, New York.